Already uncertain before the match due to his left knee problems, Joel Embiid experienced a nightmare evening in San Francisco, since he left his teammates… due to injury! Clearly transparent until then, even little concerned, the 2023 MVP was on the ground when he took Jonathan Kuminga's 100 kilos on the knee. There were then four minutes left to play.
We don't see any twisting or hyper-extension, but the Cameroonian immediately grimaces and holds his knee in the process. It's precisely the knee that has been bothering him for several weeks, and it's obviously worrying.
Soon ineligible for the end of season trophies?
After the meeting, Nick Nurse gave news of his leader. According to the medical staff, the injury is not related to previous pain in the same knee, and Embiid will have an MRI this Wednesday to find out its severity.
Already absent 12 times this season, the pivot could therefore miss several additional matches, or even the All-Star Game scheduled in two weeks.
Which would mean, if he were to miss six more matches, that he would no longer be eligible for trophies and end-of-year selections since the NBA has put quotas in place. And therefore the defense of his MVP trophy. But he warned that he was not obsessed with it, and that the most important thing was to be in good health.
